Youthful Body In 60 Days: Over 40 Weight Lift Guide

Based on dozens of interviews with professional weight lifters and bodybuilders, this article gives you the meat of the how-to’s.

Here’s what to do week by week.

Prior To Starting Your Exercising

What to do:

1. Measure And Record

Get out the tape measure and the camera. As much as you don’t like to do this, it has to be done.

Remember that no one is going to see these except you – unless you want someone to see them. However, the key is that you must wear something that is not only skimpy but something that you think looks good.

2. Prime The Pump

Start taking an excellent multivitamin and extra antioxidants. Your body will be burning oxygen faster than it has in awhile once you start working out. You’ll need plenty of antioxidants to combat this.

How much to take really depends on your vitamin and mineral status, so do get a checkup and ask your doctor to order tests for iron, vitamin E, vitamin C, and vitamin D along with a complete CBC (complete blood cell count) and chemistry screen.

If you can find a practitioner who runs a hair analysis, you’ll be better off than without one.

Week 1. Get Re-Acquainted With The Health Club

Now it’s time to get reacquainted with the health club.

1) On Monday, choose 5 exercise machines that work out major muscle groups of the body.

Work out on these machines but only do 2 sets of 10 to 12 reps at a very low weight that won’t hurt you in any way. When you leave the gym, you should feel as if you are wondering why you went there in the first place.

2) On Wednesday, do 3 sets of those same exercises with 10-12 reps per set.

3) On Friday, do 4 sets of those same exercises with a low weight and 10 to 12 reps per set.

4) This week if you had been doing cardio before starting week 1, continue it. If not, don’t add cardio but do take your supplements.

Week 2. Time To Get Serious About This Over 40 Weight Lift Guide

Now that your body has the message that you will be working out again and it doesn’t hurt, it’s time to start to make more progress.

1) On Monday, do 5 sets of those same exercises from Week 1, but this time do 2 sets of 12 repetitions at a lower weight, then raise the weight for the next set and only do 10 reps.

The 4th set should be a higher weight again with 8 reps. And the last set is a higher weight with 6 reps. Do this with every one of the 5 machines.

2) On Wednesday, repeat what you did on Wednesday.

3) On Friday, see if you can raise the weight to a higher level on 2 to 3 of the machines, following the same workout schedule.

4) Add two 20-minute cardio workouts during the week on either Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday or Saturday with interval training built into it.

For example, if you’re riding a stationery bike, sprint for at least one full minute three to four times during the 20 minutes.